A number of Egyptian developers has launched sphinUX which is the first 100% Egyptian and Arab open source OS.
The OS used to be based on Linux distribution Debian, but they developed an enhanced Kernel (LS Kernel) and launched in on the release RC2-Build21.
A powerful mix of 40% Debian kernel, 40% Hurd kernel and 20% our own Lightning Spe...

As France started military crusader against the Islamic movements who control northern Mali the French government stepped up security in the country expecting retaliatory strikes at the heart of France as the unjust military campaign has caused great destruction in Mali and killed many civilians.
Jihadi hackers did not wait in a forum post at a Ji...

Saudi Arabia based Arab gaming platform GameTako launched a gaming platform app for Windows 8 OS available on Windows store. The app allows Arab game developers to publish their games on the platform. The gaming startup said it is planning to launch gaming distribution platform for other platforms such as iPad and Android.
The app allows Window...

Where is freedom of speech Google's eyes? While the it says that anti Islam offensive movie innocence of Muslim is free speech? While videos of Syrian revolutionary group Jabhat Al Nusra are deleted?
Google;s YouTube has shut down the page of Jabhat Al Nusra supporters, we ask why? And we will communicate to Google to see there explanation.
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At the end of every week we present you the top hashtags on twitter and in Arabic, we translate them to you in English. These hashtags represent the top trending topics of the week Arabs are talking about in Arabic on twitter.
1- tweet a pic
2- Syria
3- retweet
4- Egypt
5- say
6- tweet with a pic
7- truth
8- picture
9- Morning and eve...

Thai police has arrested late Sunday Hamza Bendelladj, a 24 year old hacker wanted by the FBI for hacking into 217 banks and stealing 10 of millions of US dollars.
Bendelladj was arrested while attempting to transit through Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport from Malaysia.
Police confiscated from Bendelladj two laptops, one tablet computer, a ...

Hello Arabcrunch users,
This is my first post here, hopefully I will make more in the future if you like it. So today I will share with you something I was doing like 2 years ago, and I know that the whole internet marketing thing is still fresh in the Arabic world, so you'll be enjoying the lion share if you implement this now.
This metho...

One Spear Entertainment announced the launch of ShaqDown today at the opening of the 2013 International CES, the world's largest consumer electronics show. ShaqDown is a 2D, side scrolling beat 'em up game available on iOS and Android. The game was developed by Hiptic Games.
ShaqDown is set in a dystopian future where mankind has been mostl...

A Kuwaiti court sentenced a man to two years in prison on Monday for insulting the country's ruler on Twitter, reports Reuters, the second person to be jailed for the offence in as many days.
The US backed government has been cracking down on social media activists in the country recently.
Kuwait has seen a series of opposition-organized ...

Social media agency social Clinic has published an infographic about social media stats in Saudi Arabia.
It shows that there is 3 million twitter users around 12% of the population growing 3000% with an average 50 million tweet per month, 840,000 linkedin users representing 4% of the population, and 6 million facebook users representing 23% of t...